Sci-Fi Writer Peter Watts Convicted of Assault 381
SJrX writes "CBC news is reporting that Peter Watts has indeed been convicted of Assaulting border guards, (discussed here). He will be sentenced April 26th."
Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) 183
Svippy writes "As revealed last summer, Futurama will be returning this year, and while there were conflicts about the cast of the show in the late summer of 2009, a deal was eventually secured. Last week, Comedy Central confirmed the airing of the first episode, 'Rebirth,' will be 24 June 2010. Several other details related to plot and production have surfaced over the months, and for those interested, a full article is available on the subject."
Comment Real Men (Score 2, Funny) 133
A) Real men don't build a circuit with an 14Mhz ATmega, when a couple of 555's and a few TTL counters would have sufficed.
B) Real men don't program micro-controllers in C (or, god forbid, BASIC), when a hundred or so assembly instructions would have sufficed.
C) Real men don't give their wives goofy hand-made electronic crap on Valentine's Day, because they know their wives will figuratively and possibly literally beat the shit out of them thus belying that whole 'real man' thing.
Comment Musical genius (Score 0) 659
The same company that came up with this embarrassing moment a few years back.
Comment Birds of a... (Score 0) 213
In a related story, Mitch Bainwol has been called as Lori Drew's first character witness.
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